L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoNuclear Fusion World Record Smashed in Major Achievementwww.sciencealert.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squareBurnedDonut@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·7 months agoAnd it’s still 40 years away to becoming a reliable power source since they started experimenting with it in the 1950s. Joking aside I don’t think I’ll be able to see a working fusion power plant in my life time.
minus-squarecm0002@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·7 months agoTbf most things “always 20 years away” is usually that way because of funding reasons. If fusion got the funding it deserved from the beginning things would be a lot different now. But, ya know, big oil and old rich fucks :/
And it’s still 40 years away to becoming a reliable power source since they started experimenting with it in the 1950s.
Joking aside I don’t think I’ll be able to see a working fusion power plant in my life time.
Tbf most things “always 20 years away” is usually that way because of funding reasons.
If fusion got the funding it deserved from the beginning things would be a lot different now. But, ya know, big oil and old rich fucks :/